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dwwatk01

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Stints as a sysadmin, web service dev, web dev, security (Identity and Access Mgmt), and application security.

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Oracle to buy Sun 17 years ago

Definitely not as big as MySQL/Oracle, but one that I'm wondering most about is their open-source app server Glassfish. A big part of Oracle's BEA acquisition was bolstering their middleware suite (with WebLogic, et al.). Will Glassfish development continue? I hope so...

I seem to remember reading a study (cannot find it at the moment) hypothesizing a lower food intake triggers an evolutionary response. Basically: hungry->must find food->more alert

I'd also add that if a new user sees inaccurate/out-of-date information they are very unlikely to ever trust the reliability of the wiki again. Something we're trying is asking those sympathetic to our wiki cause spot-check the wiki periodically to catch and fix glaring mistakes.

(I know, I know the idea of a wiki is a collaborative one, but you must take baby steps, especially in a large organization.)

I ran into a similar problem teaching myself perl a couple years ago by doing a short tutorial then foolishly jumping into a co-worker's code. "What the hell is '$.'? Hmm, well I'm sure Google can help me. What? No matching documents?!? What is this crazy s.o.b. doing here??"

I hadn't used my twitter account in months and just this morning got notification that lucille166 was following me. Is lucille166 just another of my enamored female fans, you ask. Nope, a porn bot. I wonder how much of the increase can be attributed to the influx of spam/porn bots to this previously (I'm assuming) pristine online landscape.

Ubuntu 8.04 is out 18 years ago

Good to hear! The one issue I had with 7.10, requiring some xorg tweaks, was getting that same monitor setup working correctly. Here's to a smooth setup when I get home tonight :).